Markthalle Neun
Nineteenth-century iron and glass market hall turned street food and craft market venue.
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This guide to Markthalle Neun in Berlin follows one of the city's last surviving nineteenth-century market halls through a WWII bombing, the isolation of Cold War division, and a slow decline that had nearly emptied its stalls by the 1970s. It picks up again in 2009, when Berlin planned to sell the building for a shopping mall, and neighbors organized to argue the city's own accountants out of the sale. Look up at the same iron trusses that have stood over the hall since 1891.
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